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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4945 Collections and/or Records:

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Nelson guide, 1954

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 320/1/6
Scope and Contents

A guide book to Nelson, South Island, New Zealand.

Dates: 1954
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nelson, November 1841, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 340/4
Scope and Contents

A print issued by the New Zealand Government to mark the opening of New Zealand House, London, on 9 May 1963 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/60
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river, with a rowing boat and five men in the foreground. The Nepean River is in fact part of the Hawkesbury River system, itself over 300 miles long, but its various parts given four different names. When discovered, they were thought to be different rivers and the old names have been retained.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/61
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190 x 140 mm. A view of the river, from which rise heavily wooded banks. With figures standing on the bank in the background. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/62
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river, with figures in the distance standing on stepping-stones. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/63
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river, with steep wooded banks and a man fishing in a rowing boat in the foreground. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/65
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. Photograph printed from a broken plate and picture not in sharp focus beyond the foreground. A view of the river, exact location unidentified.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/66
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river at a narrow point, with three figures posing on rocks by the river. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/67
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view of the river looking down from a bank, with wooded hills stretching away beyond. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Nepean River, 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3086J/68
Scope and Contents

190 x 140 mm. A view looking down on to a pool in the river and to the banks rising beyond. Precise location unidentified.

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Netherlands Court looking westwards, 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087A/20
Scope and Contents

289 x 233 mm.

Dates: 1880
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Bridge, a quarter-mile one span, Sydney Harbour, Australia, 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089S/107
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75 x 50 mm. A view showing part of the bridge, under construction. Started in 1923, the bridge which links the north and south sides of the harbour was completed in 1932.

Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Caledonia : Noumea and Isle of Pines, chiefly from the air, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham L
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

Slides taken during a visit which included New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, the Gilbert Islands and New Caledonia.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Caledonia War Dress, 1884 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089D/77
Scope and Contents 51 x 93 mm. A full length studio portrait of a New Caledonian dressed in war regalia. All that is visible of the man are his arms and legs, his body being covered in a feather cloak and his head in an elaborate mask, probably also made of feathers or down and designed as a symbolic representation of a huge face. The spear he holds in his hand is similar to that of the Santa Chief in Y3089D/66 and the pictures are probably by the same unknown photographer. Behind the warrior is a painted...
Dates: 1884 - 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Chum Gully as seen from Specimen Hill, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/36
Scope and Contents

177 x 125 mm. A view from the hill looking out over small houses and gardens, with mine workings in the distance, and ‘Cleary’s Honeysuckle Street Hotel’ identifiable in the centre of the picture.

Dates: 1875
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Chum Line of Reef, 1875

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087C/2
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180 x 127 mm. A view looking down on to several mine workings, with the township of Golden Square in the distance. The different claims are identified in the key, with Lazarus’ crushing plant at the left. Quartz-crushing machines were used in Bendigo before anywhere else in Victoria, and on the New Chum Reef since 1855 (see Y3087C/5).

Dates: 1875
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New dry dock, Wellington Harbour, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 26/6870
Scope and Contents

Landscape format. [Reclamation for wharf area - not graving dock. Building left of centre with chimneys is City Council garbage destructor. S.S.].

Dates: 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Guinea Chief, Motu-Motu, November 10th, 1884

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3084A/25
Scope and Contents

285 x 230 mm. Lyne gives a detailed description of Chief Semese, Paramount Warrior Chief of the Elema on p. 93. He poses beneath the flag while a sailor motions him to stand still, and people gather on either side. The photograph is an original for an illustration in Lyne, p. 117, and entitled 'Hoisting the British Flag'. It is also reproduced as an engraving in Chalmers' 'Pioneering in New Guinea', p. 202, entitled 'Keep still, Johnnie'.

Dates: 1884
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Guinea man [?], 1885 - 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309B/22
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114 x 85 mm. A head and shoulders portrait of a New Guinean man, with a boar’s tusk through his nose, and a distinctive hair arrangement. The Solomon Islands is another possible geographical location.

Dates: 1885 - 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Hebrides : Fish landed : tuna and albacore, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham D/403
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Hebrides : Forari N. Hebs [Nr Vila] Manganese Mine, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham D/415
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Hebrides : Santo airfield, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham D/401
Scope and Contents

[From the air].

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Hebrides : Santo fish freezer. Washing and gutting, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham D/404
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Hebrides : Santo : Gubbay's fish freezer. Jap[anese] ship. NB. sharks' fins, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham D/405
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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New Hebrides : Vila from Irikiki, 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Marnham D/412
Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Ektachromes with frames made in England (except 516A). Apart from the maps, all are numbered by Marnham. The maps are: numbers 15-17 three views of a map of the Pacific and numbers 18-19 two views of a map of the Western Pacific. Numbers 103, 105, 108, 111, 116, 212, 318, 406, 503, 504 and 519 are listed as missing with no attempt to catalogue them as they contain no further details.

Dates: 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).